Less than ten years ago, hardly anyone knew what the term “Rohingya” meant. Today, it is tied to one of the clearest crises of forced displacement in our time.
Türkiye is one of the largest refugee-hosting countries worldwide, as the number of people forcibly displaced across the world due to conflict, violence and persecution hit record levels. Türkiye ...
Evacuations start in Libya where UNHCR staff identify vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees in need of international protection. Many of these individuals have been housed in detention centers and ...
GENEVA – Brutal funding cuts in the humanitarian sector are putting millions of lives at risk. The consequences for people fleeing danger will be immediate and devastating: Refugee women and girls at ...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the European Commission’s proposed Return Regulation as a positive step toward creating a more coherent and effective EU framework. UNHCR has long supported and ...
As the Horn of Africa enters its sixth consecutive rainy season with no rain, displacement continues to climb as millions from Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya struggle to survive amid scarce water sources ...
Some fled with no warning at all. Others had weeks or months to anxiously weigh their options – until mounting danger finally forced them to leave their homes behind. Over the past seven years, UNHCR ...
GENEVA – Two years since the start of the war in Sudan, the news remains exceedingly grim. The world's most damaging displacement crisis is now happening amid the worst humanitarian funding situation ...
At the border post in Medyka, Poland, a steady stream of exhausted refugees from Ukraine – most of them women with children – appear at the gate leading from passport control, dragging their luggage ...